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Show 93 river quite rapidly . I did not always find the channel in the same place and I have known it to change between trips . . ( R . 3218-9 , Vol . 17 . ) In October , 1900 , 1 went to Barrett Station , about 12 miles below Bluff , on the San Juan , with a pack outfit . There was quite a little stream there and also at Bluff and below Barrett Station . I went down to the bed of the river to water my horses and there was no real running water in the bed . I only remained there one day and then went back to Comb Wash and Hite . ( R . 3220-2 , Vol . 17 . ) At ( Kite Hite ) I got a boat and went down to the mouth of the San Juan River , and thence up the San Juan River about 12 miles , another man ( accompanying- accompanying accompanying ) me . When I arrived at the mouth of the San Juan River , I found it was unusually low , very low , and we started to row up but only rowed a little ways , and got out and towed . There was considerable current and too many bars for us to row in such low water . After we got up there ( we -we we ) had our supper and then came back downstream that night . We had no trouble going downstream . On our upstream journey we had started the sand and made a channel and went right back ( down- down ) stream in that channel . This was about October 15th . ( R . 3222-4 , Vol . 17 . ) ( I 1 ) have had very little experience in boating on the Green River . Once I went down the river with Captain Yokey ; they had a boat called the Cliff Dweller , and one Sunday ran an excursion down a ways and grounded . I ( didn't didnt ) stay on the boat and walked back up . ( R . 3225 , Vol . 17 . ) On the occasion when I went up the San Juan River in my boat , I made the downstream trip that evening quite rapidly and had no trouble . ( R . 3226 , Vol . 17 . ) I made my river trips during the years that I was on the Colorado in pursuit of my vocation or in the service of others who were engaged in business , and I was not in that country as a ( sight-seer sightseer ) or gentleman of leisure . ( R . 3231 , Vol . 17 . ) I shipped several cars of ore from the copper property that I worked near Hite , all of which was taken across the river in boats . Some of the carloads contained as much as forty tons , and I must have shipped 200 tons . ( R . 3232-4 , Vol . 17 ) The shifting of the bed of the Colorado River and the changing of channels in that river generally occurred during the high water season and immediately following the high |